sadoldgit Posted 3 August, 2014 Share Posted 3 August, 2014 Picked this (Crypto Locker virus) up in June and it has locked my docs and photos. The guy who looks after my PC says I am stuffed if I dont pay the ransom. Running XP. Any advice? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintmonkey1979 Posted 3 August, 2014 Share Posted 3 August, 2014 Had that too. Nothing I tried worked to repair it. Whatever you do, don't pay the developer to repair/decrypt the files. After lits of research I discovered that it doesn't necessarily work and you end up hundreds of quids out of pocket. The only way I got round it was to reinstall xp. I lost most of my files, which was gutting, but by that time they were gone or not useable anyway. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 3 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 3 August, 2014 Had that too. Nothing I tried worked to repair it. Whatever you do, don't pay the developer to repair/decrypt the files. After lits of research I discovered that it doesn't necessarily work and you end up hundreds of quids out of pocket. The only way I got round it was to reinstall xp. I lost most of my files, which was gutting, but by that time they were gone or not useable anyway. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Hi SM and thanks. I am not a tekkie but the people I spoke to in the pub last night said I could just Google it and find a cure. Didnt expect it to be that easy to be honest. What if I upgrade to Windows 8 and transfer the files. Would that make it easier to fix do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintmonkey1979 Posted 3 August, 2014 Share Posted 3 August, 2014 I have no idea in all honesty SOG. I would imagine it depends on what kind of encryption the scum have used. It may be worth a try though I suppose. Especially now there is no Microsoft support for XP. There may be someone who is more computer savvy than myself though who may have a better solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stthrobber Posted 3 August, 2014 Share Posted 3 August, 2014 http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-091122-3112-99 You might find this link helpful Bern, but if you aren't a Norton user I don't know if it will let you download and use their removal tools, but it's worth a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor_Saint Posted 3 August, 2014 Share Posted 3 August, 2014 Sorry, you're stuffed, and don't pay the ransom as chances are you'll not just lose your data but you'll lose your money. It's quite clever this virus and, unless you've got a backup of the files, they are assigned to the bit bucket in the sky. Sadly it'll also look for network shares so if you backup to another device on the network and don't offline it when you have the virus it'll encrypt that data as well. Nasty little beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 3 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 3 August, 2014 Sorry, you're stuffed, and don't pay the ransom as chances are you'll not just lose your data but you'll lose your money. It's quite clever this virus and, unless you've got a backup of the files, they are assigned to the bit bucket in the sky. Sadly it'll also look for network shares so if you backup to another device on the network and don't offline it when you have the virus it'll encrypt that data as well. Nasty little beast. Aw sh*t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 3 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 3 August, 2014 http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-091122-3112-99 You might find this link helpful Bern, but if you aren't a Norton user I don't know if it will let you download and use their removal tools, but it's worth a shot Thanks Throbber! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 5 August, 2014 Share Posted 5 August, 2014 Plenty of removal tools out there, all major anti-malware systems can do this, just GOOGLE it. Unfortunately, as Tractor says, the data is lost. We've had this at work, bloody annoying but luckily everything is regularly backed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 6 August, 2014 Share Posted 6 August, 2014 (edited) Just got a link to this in my email - http://www.fireeye.com/blog/corporate/2014/08/your-locker-of-information-for-cryptolocker-decryption.html https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/ Edited 6 August, 2014 by badgerx16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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